I just got back yesterday from a week long vacation in Italy. While it was a wonderful vacation, it was soo stressful leaving behind my babies!

Our 4 dogs go to a boarder’s where they have air conditioned runs with running time in the yard each day. Our 4 cats and my 2 rabbits are taken care of by a sitter. 

Well, the morning that we need to leave (at 9 am) I find weeds, with stickers on them, in the buns’ hay! I’d heard of that happening once out of a million wonderful reviews on this hay that I order. I have a 25 pound box of hay, and I’m about 1/3 through it all (after a few months of using it) and these weeds show up, of corse on the day that I can’t do a thing about it. I picked through it for about half an hour putting it into a separate box. I stuffed their baskets with hay and decided to just ask my friend (the pet-sitter) to forget about adding any more hay and just let them have unlimited pellets for the week. I stuffed their baskets a whole lot with the hay that I picked through before I left, so they still had hay (until the last day, when it ran out) but I didn’t want the sitter to have to pick through a whole bunch of hay to give them and me being a worried mess over it. I ordered more hay today, and I’m about to go pick through some more to last them these few days until it comes in. Of corse I’m going to be careful to watch and make sure this doesn’t happen again. I’m still going to use this hay, it’s really great and they really seem to love it. 

If that wasn’t enough, halfway through the vacation the pet-sitter (by accident, of corse) locks herself out of our house. We begged a locksmith to unlock our house for them from Italy, sending faxes of signatures and such, and thankfully that got all worked out pretty quickly. But not without lots of stress!

So, basically… I wanted to complain. 

Now, as a break from the stress (sarcasm), I am back to bonding!